Alphabet Company: The Australian Unit that Powered the Underground War on the Western Front

Beneath the Western Front, a tiny Australian unit kept the underground war alive.

Fewer than 300 men served in the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company. Few outside the battlefield knew their name. Yet across the British sector, from Flanders to the Somme, the work of this remarkable AIF unit was indispensable.

Known as 'Alphabet Company', they operated in some of the most dangerous and unforgiving conditions of the Great War. Led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, the Alph...